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2022 Celebration

The Department of Jewish Studies and the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, held the 2022 end-of-year celebration on May 4, 2022. Held in person after two years of virtual celebrations, university administration, faculty, staff, students, family, and friends gathered to celebrate and acknowledge the graduating Jewish studies majors and minors and the students who received awards for excellence and research for the 2021-2022 academic year.

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  • 2022 Jewish Studies graduates and award recipients.

     

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  • Graduating senior Joshua Wilk and award recipient Reese Feldman

     

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  • Professor Paola Tartakoff and Professor Emerita Yael Zerubavel

     

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  • Professor Leslie Fishbein and Zoltan Kemeny

     

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  • Jordan and Reese Feldman

     

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  • Professor Judy Gerson and Professor Paola Tartakoff

     

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  • Jim Masschaele
    Executive Vice Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

     

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  • Brooke Ramos and family

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  • Jim Masschaele, Executive Vice Dean; Professor Paola Tartakoff, Department of Jewish Studies Chair; and Karen Small, Bildner Center Managing Director

     

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  • Professor Rebecca Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities, and Jim Masschaele, Executive Vice Dean

     

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  • Professor Paola Tartkoff welcomes guests

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  • Professor Rebecca Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities; Jim Masschaele, Executive Vice Dean; and Professor Michal Raucher

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  • Professor Rebecca Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences

     

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  • Ilana Berkman hails from Manalapan, New Jersey. She was recently inducted into the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society and will graduate this year with a major in Classics and three minors: Jewish Studies, History, and Religion.

     

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  • Yerim Cho hails from South Korea and will graduate this year with a major in Jewish Studies and a double minor in Education and Cognitive Science.

     

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  • Amy Rosen hails from Flemington, New Jersey and will graduate this year with a major in Linguistics and a double minor in Jewish studies and psychology. This past year, she served as a First-Year Interest Group Seminar Peer Instructor for which she developed a course called “Exploring Linguistics & Speech & Hearing Sciences.” She also completed a senior honors thesis in Linguistics on word learning and gesture use among bimodal bilinguals and monolingual English speakers, and she presented her research at the Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium at UC Berkeley in April.

     

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  • Professor Paul Hanebrink

     

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  • Yerim Cho is graduating with a major in Jewish Studies and a double minor in Education and Cognitive Science.

     

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  • Joshua Wilk is graduating with a major in Jewish Studies and a minor in History.

     

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  • Professor Nancy Sinkoff
    Academic Director, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

     

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  • Professor Adam Ferziger
    Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar

     

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  • Dr. Ron Lasri
    Jerome and Lorraine Aresty Visiting Scholar

     

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  • Professor Emerita Yael Zerubavel honors Professor Leslie Fishbein and Professor Judy Gerson on their retirement

     

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  • Professor Leslie Fishbein

     

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  • Professor Judy Gerson

     

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  • Professor Paola Tartakoff

     

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  • Professor Orna Goldman presents student awards.

     

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  • Ilana Berkman is graduating with a major in Classics and three minors: Jewish Studies, History, and Religion.

     

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  • Ilana Berkman received two awards: The Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award for excellence in Jewish studies and the Reitman Family Award for research in Jewish studies. The latter award will help support her attendance this June at the Association of Jewish Libraries’ Annual Conference in Philadelphia. She ultimately hopes to earn a master’s degree in Library Science and work at a Jewish institution.

     

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  • Professor Paola Tartakoff and Yerim Cho

     

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  • Yerim Cho is received the Bernice and Milton I. Luxemburg Student Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

     

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  • Reese Feldman is a double major in Statistics and Political Science. Her work in Jewish Studies has primarily focused on learning the Hebrew language. After graduating, she hopes to work in the political sphere as a data analyst, helping to shed light on voting behavior. She received the Gertrude and Jacob Henoch Memorial Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

     

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  • Reese Feldman is a double major in Statistics and Political Science. Her work in Jewish Studies has primarily focused on learning the Hebrew language.

     

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  • Christine Jensen, a former Jewish Studies and Religion double major, is completing her master of religion degree as part of the 4+1 Religion M.A. program at Rutgers. She received two awards today for research in Jewish studies. In December Christine received the Betty and Julius Gillman Memorial Award that helped her attend the virtual Biblical Hebrew Workshop through the Jewish Theological Seminary over winter break. Today she is receiving the Deborah S. and Herbert B. Wasserman Award that will support her attendance at a Hebrew Manuscript Workshop at Oxford University this summer. She will begin a Ph.D. program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University in the fall and hopes to become a professor.

     

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  • Christine Jensen, a former Jewish Studies and Religion double major, is completing her master of religion degree as part of the 4+1 Religion M.A. program at Rutgers.

     

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  • Brooke Ramos receives her certificate and gift from Professor Paola Tartakoff.

     

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  • Brooke Ramos, a double major in Jewish Studies and English with a minor in Holocaust Studies, received the Dr. Benjamin F. and Lillian Glasser Award for excellence in Jewish studies. She will begin an internship shortly with the Bildner Center assisting in the work of the Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center. She is considering post-graduate study in social work and Holocaust education.

     

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  • Amy Rosen receives her certificate and gift from Professor Paola Tartakoff.

     

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  • Amy Rosen is graduating with a major in Linguistics and a double minor in Jewish studies and Psychology.

     

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  • Amy Rosen received the Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

     

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  • Jacob Sclar is graduating with a major in Journalism and Global Media Studies and a minor in Spanish. He believes that this academic background will help him achieve success as a future journalist writing about national and international news. He received the Gertrude and Jacob Henoch Memorial Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

     

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  • Ilana Berkman, Amy Rosen, and Christine Jensen

     

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  • Ilana and Alisa Berkman

     

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  • Professor Orna Goldman

     

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  • Professor Leslie Fishbein and Zoltan Kemeny

     

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  • Professor Nancy Sinkoff

     

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  • Jewish Studies 2022 graduates and award recipients.

    From left to right:
    (Top) Joshua Wilk, Amy Rosen, Brooke Ramos, and Yerim Cho
    (Bottom) Reese Feldman, Ilana Berkman, Jacob Sclar, and Christine Jensen

     

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  • Jewish Studies Faculty with the 2022 graduates and award recipients.

    From left to right:
    (Top) Joshua Wilk, Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Professor Orna Goldman, Amy Rosen, Brooke Ramos, and Yerim Cho, Professor Paola Tartakoff, Professor Paul Hanebrink, and Professor Michal Raucher
    (Bottom) Reese Feldman, Ilana Berkman, Jacob Sclar, and Christine Jensen

     

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  • Jewish Studies Faculty

    From left to right:
    (Top) Professor Judy Gerson, Professor Orna Goldman, Professor Leslie Fishbein, Professor Paul Hanebrink, Professor Adam Ferziger, Professor Nancy Sinkoff
    (Bottom) Dr. Ron Lasri, Professor Paola Tartakoff, and Professor Michal Raucher

     

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  • Bildner Center's 2022 Visiting Scholars

    From left to right:
    Karen Small, Managing Director, Dr. Ron Lasri, Professor Adam Ferziger, and Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Academic Director

     

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  • Bildner Center Staff

    From left to right:
    (Top) Sarah Portilla, Karen Small, Heather Parkinson
    (Bottom) Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Gabriel Duque, Darcy Maher

     

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2022 Jewish Studies graduates and award recipients.

 

Graduating senior Joshua Wilk and award recipient Reese Feldman

 

Professor Paola Tartakoff and Professor Emerita Yael Zerubavel

 

Professor Leslie Fishbein and Zoltan Kemeny

 

Jordan and Reese Feldman

 

Professor Judy Gerson and Professor Paola Tartakoff

 

Jim Masschaele
Executive Vice Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

 

Brooke Ramos and family

Jim Masschaele, Executive Vice Dean; Professor Paola Tartakoff, Department of Jewish Studies Chair; and Karen Small, Bildner Center Managing Director

 

Professor Rebecca Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities, and Jim Masschaele, Executive Vice Dean

 

Professor Paola Tartkoff welcomes guests

Professor Rebecca Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities; Jim Masschaele, Executive Vice Dean; and Professor Michal Raucher

Professor Rebecca Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences

 

Ilana Berkman hails from Manalapan, New Jersey. She was recently inducted into the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society and will graduate this year with a major in Classics and three minors: Jewish Studies, History, and Religion.

 

Yerim Cho hails from South Korea and will graduate this year with a major in Jewish Studies and a double minor in Education and Cognitive Science.

 

Amy Rosen hails from Flemington, New Jersey and will graduate this year with a major in Linguistics and a double minor in Jewish studies and psychology. This past year, she served as a First-Year Interest Group Seminar Peer Instructor for which she developed a course called “Exploring Linguistics & Speech & Hearing Sciences.” She also completed a senior honors thesis in Linguistics on word learning and gesture use among bimodal bilinguals and monolingual English speakers, and she presented her research at the Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium at UC Berkeley in April.

 

Professor Paul Hanebrink

 

Yerim Cho is graduating with a major in Jewish Studies and a double minor in Education and Cognitive Science.

 

Joshua Wilk is graduating with a major in Jewish Studies and a minor in History.

 

Professor Nancy Sinkoff
Academic Director, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

 

Professor Adam Ferziger
Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar

 

Dr. Ron Lasri
Jerome and Lorraine Aresty Visiting Scholar

 

Professor Emerita Yael Zerubavel honors Professor Leslie Fishbein and Professor Judy Gerson on their retirement

 

Professor Leslie Fishbein

 

Professor Judy Gerson

 

Professor Paola Tartakoff

 

Professor Orna Goldman presents student awards.

 

Ilana Berkman is graduating with a major in Classics and three minors: Jewish Studies, History, and Religion.

 

Ilana Berkman received two awards: The Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award for excellence in Jewish studies and the Reitman Family Award for research in Jewish studies. The latter award will help support her attendance this June at the Association of Jewish Libraries’ Annual Conference in Philadelphia. She ultimately hopes to earn a master’s degree in Library Science and work at a Jewish institution.

 

Professor Paola Tartakoff and Yerim Cho

 

Yerim Cho is received the Bernice and Milton I. Luxemburg Student Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

 

Reese Feldman is a double major in Statistics and Political Science. Her work in Jewish Studies has primarily focused on learning the Hebrew language. After graduating, she hopes to work in the political sphere as a data analyst, helping to shed light on voting behavior. She received the Gertrude and Jacob Henoch Memorial Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

 

Reese Feldman is a double major in Statistics and Political Science. Her work in Jewish Studies has primarily focused on learning the Hebrew language.

 

Christine Jensen, a former Jewish Studies and Religion double major, is completing her master of religion degree as part of the 4+1 Religion M.A. program at Rutgers. She received two awards today for research in Jewish studies. In December Christine received the Betty and Julius Gillman Memorial Award that helped her attend the virtual Biblical Hebrew Workshop through the Jewish Theological Seminary over winter break. Today she is receiving the Deborah S. and Herbert B. Wasserman Award that will support her attendance at a Hebrew Manuscript Workshop at Oxford University this summer. She will begin a Ph.D. program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University in the fall and hopes to become a professor.

 

Christine Jensen, a former Jewish Studies and Religion double major, is completing her master of religion degree as part of the 4+1 Religion M.A. program at Rutgers.

 

Brooke Ramos receives her certificate and gift from Professor Paola Tartakoff.

 

Brooke Ramos, a double major in Jewish Studies and English with a minor in Holocaust Studies, received the Dr. Benjamin F. and Lillian Glasser Award for excellence in Jewish studies. She will begin an internship shortly with the Bildner Center assisting in the work of the Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center. She is considering post-graduate study in social work and Holocaust education.

 

Amy Rosen receives her certificate and gift from Professor Paola Tartakoff.

 

Amy Rosen is graduating with a major in Linguistics and a double minor in Jewish studies and Psychology.

 

Amy Rosen received the Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

 

Jacob Sclar is graduating with a major in Journalism and Global Media Studies and a minor in Spanish. He believes that this academic background will help him achieve success as a future journalist writing about national and international news. He received the Gertrude and Jacob Henoch Memorial Award for excellence in Jewish studies.

 

Ilana Berkman, Amy Rosen, and Christine Jensen

 

Ilana and Alisa Berkman

 

Professor Orna Goldman

 

Professor Leslie Fishbein and Zoltan Kemeny

 

Professor Nancy Sinkoff

 

Jewish Studies 2022 graduates and award recipients.

From left to right:
(Top) Joshua Wilk, Amy Rosen, Brooke Ramos, and Yerim Cho
(Bottom) Reese Feldman, Ilana Berkman, Jacob Sclar, and Christine Jensen

 

Jewish Studies Faculty with the 2022 graduates and award recipients.

From left to right:
(Top) Joshua Wilk, Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Professor Orna Goldman, Amy Rosen, Brooke Ramos, and Yerim Cho, Professor Paola Tartakoff, Professor Paul Hanebrink, and Professor Michal Raucher
(Bottom) Reese Feldman, Ilana Berkman, Jacob Sclar, and Christine Jensen

 

Jewish Studies Faculty

From left to right:
(Top) Professor Judy Gerson, Professor Orna Goldman, Professor Leslie Fishbein, Professor Paul Hanebrink, Professor Adam Ferziger, Professor Nancy Sinkoff
(Bottom) Dr. Ron Lasri, Professor Paola Tartakoff, and Professor Michal Raucher

 

Bildner Center's 2022 Visiting Scholars

From left to right:
Karen Small, Managing Director, Dr. Ron Lasri, Professor Adam Ferziger, and Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Academic Director

 

Bildner Center Staff

From left to right:
(Top) Sarah Portilla, Karen Small, Heather Parkinson
(Bottom) Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Gabriel Duque, Darcy Maher

 

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